Senior Cloud Automation & AWS Security Engineer

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; Eureka (CA); On-site; USD 141,900 - 190,300; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology CAM team builds tools and guidance to enable secure, self‑service AWS usage and scalable cloud architectures across Disney Streaming. This security‑focused role designs and supports automation and tooling for engineers and DevOps teams.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll influence configuration, deployment patterns, and IAM controls while collaborating with software engineers across the CAM team to advance cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
• Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (python, database, building APIs).
• Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems.
• Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self‑service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments.
• Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud.
• Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS.
• Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments.
• Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning.
• Be a go‑to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams.
• Monitor and work on inbound issues.

Skills

Backend development

Python

AWS

CI/CD tools

IAM security

Docker

Unix/Linux

Cloud security

Cross-team comms

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Docker

Unix/Linux

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology CAM team builds tools and guidance to enable secure, self‑service AWS usage and scalable cloud architectures across Disney Streaming. This security‑focused role designs and supports automation and tooling for engineers and DevOps teams.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll influence configuration, deployment patterns, and IAM controls while collaborating with software engineers across the CAM team to advance cloud-native solutions.